Yahoo! Appoints Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to Lead Research Efforts; Renowned Scientist Named Head of Yahoo! Research

"The appointment of Prabhakar into this key role at Yahoo!indicates the significant degree of importance Yahoo! is placing onresearch," said Terry Semel, chief executive officer of Yahoo!."Prabhakar is highly accomplished and respected in the researchcommunity, and we look forward to continuing to expand our researchefforts to build the technical and scientific foundation we need toensure the best possible experience for our users on the Internet."

"My goal for Yahoo! Research is to continue to attract preeminentscientists from around the world to help discover new technologiesthat will enhance Yahoo services that will change the lives ofhundreds of millions of users around the globe," said Raghavan."Yahoo!'s vast network offers opportunities for scientists andresearch that few companies in the world can offer."

Raghavan is currently editor-in-chief of the "Journal of the ACM,"a prestigious peer-reviewed journal published by the Association forComputing Machinery (ACM) that provides coverage of the mostsignificant work happening in computer science. Additionally, he is aconsulting professor of computer science at Stanford University, andhas also taught at Yale. He has been inducted as a Fellow of both theACM and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Raghavan was senior vice president andchief technology officer of Verity, Inc., a leading provider ofenterprise search software that enables organizations to discover,analyze and process all of the digital information within theirenterprises. Prior to Verity, he worked for 14 years in a variety oftechnical and managerial positions at IBM, including head of theComputer Science Principles (CSP) department at IBM's Almaden ResearchCenter.

"Prabhakar's extensive experience in search and text mining and inpioneering valuable technologies for the Web will help furtherYahoo!'s commitment to scientific research, innovation and invention,"said Fayyad. "Our goal is to build the world's strongest researchorganization to establish new sciences and provide global thoughtleadership in areas that are core for Yahoo! and for how consumers useinteractive media, including, among others, Information Navigation,Social Media, Mobility, and online communities."

Raghavan is the author of a well known textbook on algorithms,titled "Randomized Algorithms," and has published over 100 papers invarious fields including algorithms, optimization, Web search anddatabases. Raghavan also holds over a dozen patents, including severalon link analysis for web search.

Raghavan holds a Ph.D from the University of California atBerkeley and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering fromIIT in Madras, India.

For additional information on Yahoo! Research, please visit:http://research.yahoo.com/

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